Genesis 31:36
And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me? And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
The confrontation grew out of Laban's jealousy over Jacob's increasing wealth and Jacob's fear for his family and possessions, which led Jacob to seek God's direction and to be told to return to his homeland, with God protecting him when Laban pursued him. Laban pursued Jacob to force him back and charged him with stealing away secretly with his daughters as though they were captives taken in war. Laban claimed it was in the power of his hand to harm Jacob, yet acknowledged that the God of Jacob's fathers had warned him the night before not to speak to Jacob either good or bad. That divine warning meant he was not to force Jacob to return nor to urge him back by flattering inducements.
In response Jacob grew angry and rebuked Laban, demanding what trespass he had committed and what sin he had done that could justify being so hotly pursued. His question opened his defense, in which he rehearsed Laban's ungenerous and unfair course toward him. That course had sought only Laban's own advantage, while Jacob appealed to the uprightness of his own conduct during his time with Laban.